It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1]

[0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html [1]: https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el

I had a look at the repo in https://sourceforge.net/p/recoil/code/ci/master/tree/ - I think the meat of it is a giant file called 'recoil.fu' (22481 lines long)

[edit] it is written in the 'Fusion Language' https://github.com/fusionlanguage/fut (and not https://gaelduval.com/introducing-fusion-the-ultimate-progra... !) - there's a playground at http://fusion-lang.org/ . I'd never heard of it before but seems a bit like Haxe perhaps?

The language has been created by the main author of RECOIL, Piotr 'Fox' Fusik – an offshoot of Ć (Cito) perhaps? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805825

Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. (Possibly any term.)

I believe they were based on Miranda[0] (1985) but they have a longer history than that, maybe under a different name.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)...

I fondly remember using sites like this to download stuff (ok, apogee games mostly!) in the 1990s. I could FTP to the university VAX which would exceed my 'soft quota' of disk space every time, then I'd have to get the files onto a floppy and delete them before my account locked up.

Does anyone know if the SunSites are still mirrored anywhere? There used to be a dir called 'programming' full of weird and whacky languages which I'd love to see again. For example there was one called ALLOY by Thanasis Mitsolides. His PhD is still available on the internet but the code in usable format is not, as far as I can see.

Alloy is available at https://www.funet.fi/pub/languages/alloy/

I think https://wiki.c2.com/?PlsLanguage is informative. PL/S was more suitable for writing low-level code due to some extra options and it didn't need a full runtime environment. Wikipedia suggests IBM didn't (initially) release it because it meant that only they could alter the operating system, and also to avoid handing any advantage to their competitors.

Correct. We used PL/S for the RSS, which was the lower layer of System R, the first SQL database. See https://mcjones.org/System_R/ and https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html

For comparison FreeRTOS[0] is, at minimum, about 9000 LOC[1] at least according to the article (I don't know when it was written), so 2000 lines is indeed pretty small.

[0]: https://www.freertos.org/ [1]: https://aosabook.org/en/v2/freertos.html

The famous UNIXv6 is also around 9k.

Are there, or have there been, devices where one might have seen Inferno running 'in the wild' e.g. digital signs, PoS terminals etc.?

There was a land-line telephone with a built-in screen that ran Inferno. Unfortunately it's very difficult to find any screenshots of the phone running Inferno; I'm not even sure they really sold them to the public, but a guy got a couple thousand for cheap and resold them as Linux devices:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070311234222/http://tuxscreen....

Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!?

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...

I have an OpenBSD install in a VM for the reason cited by ninjin:

> Personally, a different userland and directory structure usually also beats out Linux-isms.

I just upgraded from 7.2 with sysupgrade then pkg_add -u and it worked perfectly without any intervention from me. In the past I remember it needing a bit of tweaking and finger-crossing. Bravo OpenBSD!

This must be really disappointing for you - I think most people would agree you didn't break the 'spirit' of the rules even if you did maybe break the letter of the rules.

It would be great if you could re-draft that clause in a way which makes sense, and then get back to your teacher to see if she can influence the competition organisers. That way, next year's competition will be just a little fairer.